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Pre- the adoption of the resolution was >uke was elected April 17 as president The trustees of Wake Forest Col will expressed by the Baptist State of the student body. sumably these will be left entirely 1 favorable. The move has been ex lege Friday adopted a resolution .C<>nvention las~ November and to the administration of the Col· pected and did not come as a sur calling for desegregation of the un Glass, United Party candidate, allow qualified students to enter lege. prise. A few students and adminis- uk:e, defeated Students' Party candidate dergraduate school. Wake F<Y.rest C<>llege regardless of L. Y. Ballentine of Raleigh is tration officials questioned before Jack Hamrick· of Shelby by 163 By a vote of 17-9, with four ab race." stentions, the trustees adopted a Chairman of the Race Relations press deadlines indicated pleasure votes. The vote was 682-519. Neither the committee nor the C<>mmittee. Walter E. Chrissman, at the desegration move. United Party took three of the resolution presented by the Race Board of Trustees made any qualifi Relations Committee, which has a trustee of High Point, presented Issue NDw New top five positions, including senior cations or stipulations to the reso the resolution to the Board. The integration issue has been been studying the matter for sever lution. It will go into immediate class president; but the Students' Discussion-Unheated in the spotlight at Wake Forest off Party won the majority of the 36 al months. effect. The resolutiOI!l! reads: Details on dormitory arrange- and on for about three years. The lEE ·student government offices, gain The resolution was considered arrest of several Wake Forest stu- ing nineteen positions. United Party with "friendly discussion." The dents who participated in a sit Candidates took 13 offices, while announcemen,t of the result came down strike m downtown Winston four independent candidates were ;• at approximately 3:30 p. m. Salem in 1959 brought the matter victorious: Only minor objections were to light. nfte: * New student body officers, in ad * In 1959, * brought against the resolution. The March of the Student atfon dition to Glass, are Charles Taylor, Discussion Of Novel main objectiODi, accGrding to Rus- Legislature adopted a resolution vice-president; Nancy Mitchell, sec sell Brantley, Director of com- that "there be no racial discrim IXeJD• retary; and Dave Williams, treas- munications, seemed to be that the illation in the admissi01n of students r of · urer. Results In No Action C<>llege had gone far enough for the to :the College." A student body pOll '53 Per Cent Vote time being toward desegregation., showed that 742 students voted to Approximately 1163 students, 53 The Wake Forest College Board of Trustees vote<i Friday not to take Last April, the trustees voted to "never integrate," 322 voted to "in per cent of the student body, voted. any action with regard to· "The Education of Jonathan Beam," or to desegregate the School Of Law, tegrate in the relatively near fu By classes the totals are as fol STEVE GLASS, newly·elected president of the student body, accepts its author, Russell Brantley. School of Medicine, evearing classes ture," and 322 voted to "integrate and summer school. A substitute in the immediate future." lows: seniors, "116; juniors, 281; congratulations from opponent, Jack Hamrick. Glass defeated Ham The trustees passed the following motion, 16-4: . sophomores; 346; and freshmen, .420. motion was introduced at the meet- Shortly after, the faculty voted rick, 682-519. "Mter very full discussion, the Board of Trustees resolve that no Taylor defeated Mickey Redwine, ing, mentioning this fact and call- definitely in favor of integration. action be taken with r~spect to "The Education of Jonathan Beam," ing for the postponement of deseg- Since that time ¥arious groups 723-484, for vice-president. Dullest In 4 Years Miss Mitchell defeated Linda Lev- ___..;. ____________ or to its author, Russell Brantley. regation of the undergraduate al!ld individuals have campaigned Two substitute motions were brought before the trustees, but neither school for another year. far !ntegration. ering, 699-497, for secretary. ·El • L k s was voted on. WilliamsdefeatedTommy Frank- ections ac p•·r.·t 'The first substitute motion called for a committee of eleven people :· !~~5~~cf::e::::· Jt~~nk; . to be appointed to discuss the matter. A second motion referred the X.]. l(ennedy To Read first count by five votes, but on entire matter to the Executive Committee of the Trustees to recommend seven recounts Williams had a mar By MARVIN COBLE One independent commented, what action they deem necessary to the administration of the college. gin of 17 votes, giving him the vic- Staff Reporter "Last year- the United Party really Brantley's novel, released by the MacMillan Company March 12, has .tory. ' No one jumped from an airplane . wanted to win. We had been pushed stirred up .a great deal of comment in North Carolina, especially in In Second CU Series Franklin then asked for a re Neither political party offered po around too long. But this year the Baptist circles. tential supporters cookies or le X. J. Kennedy, whose first book IUniversity, he recently helped count; and, with Williams and parties .are equally divided with in "The Education of Jonathan Beam" is the story of a young North - mondade. Not a loudspeaker was dependents and fraternity men. So of poetry, "Nude Descending a translate and stage Alfred Jerry's Franklin both present, the votes Carolina boy raised in the tradition of Baptist fundamentalism who were counted again. Williams was to be heard al!lyWhere; and no one who cares who wims?" Staircase " will be published by symbolist _farce, "lJ!>u Roi" and believes he may become a preacher. As he leaves home for college, ' . acted the .title role. Hrs poems have declared the winner by 18 votes, did the twist. · Action Slow his pastor and mother persuade him to seek and report any "evil" Dubleday on October 20, will read been published in a number Gf 5 587-569. Both Williams and Frank- United and Students' Party peo- Steve Glass, United presidential he finds there. poetry tonight at 8 p. m. in the magazines, including The New lin decided on this recount as final ple generally, agreed that this was candid·ate, did not make an ap- E,ast Lounge as part of the Poetry YO'rker, Poetry, and Paris Review. and official. the dullest election in the last four pearance in the East Lounge untn The atmosphere and teachings Jonathan encounters are liberal com Circuit in the second of the series "Nnde Descending a Staircase" Huggins Defeats Bargoil , years. his victory was announced by Stan pared to his background, and he experiences a severe case of confusion. spOI!l!sored by the College Union. deals with growing up, children, In class elections Jan Huggins Only a handful of students gather- Jackman, student body president, Classroom teachings shock him. Born in Dover, New Jersey in love, unrequited and otherwise, defeated Phil Bargoil 145-128, for e_d iin! :the East Lounge. wh~re elec- over WFDD. An honest young man, Jonathan finds himself in mid-battle field be 1929, Mr. Kennedy received his with other items. Some of the most president of the senior class; bon ~eturns were commg m Tues- Jack Hamrick, Students' P.arty tween the militants and modernists. How he works out t'his problem B.S at Seton Hall College and his serious poems are written in light Charles Winberry defeated Bill Con- day mght. Most of these were hope- presidential hopeful, was in and is the substance of the novel. M.A. at Columbia University. He verse; some are Biblical stories stangy 194-150 for president of the ful candidates and close friends. out several times looking over the In other action the trustees voted to integrate the undergraduate spent four years in the NaVY fol- transformed into the terms of the junior class; 'and Jerry Attkisson "Why doem't someone dance?" blackboard with the latest class school of the College. (See related story.) lowed by a year of study at the modern man-in-the-street. defeated Danny Loftin 249-181, for a bored coed .asked her male com- tabulations. Dr. Coy Carpenter, Dean of the Bowman Gray School of Medicine, University of Paris. In 1956, he ,In 1959, a smaller draft of this - president of the sophomore class. panion. "We've alway.s danced be- P~·aps the two most worrl~d went tD the University of Michi- collection was awarded first prize . fore." WFDD had piped in music candidates were Tommy Franklin was presented a 1962 Thunderbird in recognition of his long service to gan as a teaching fellow in English, m poetry in the Hopwood compe Other semor class offices were b t nl , d t •t' and Dave Williams candidates for the School by the trustees at a luncheon Friday.